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[STUDY] 61% of Social Media Users Feel So Close To You
Sometimes little things like a sweet comment on Facebook or a Twitter friend calling your tweet a "favorite" can really make a social networker bee's day.A new study from Pew finds that for the mos...
readwriteweb.com
Stories
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TCEurope
StartupWiseGuys aims to create a #BalticMafia of startups
Today at Techcrunch Baltics, we’re hearing a lot about the need for cooperation between the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. While the latter has won a lot of PR juice from its assoc...
eu.techcrunch.com
Business
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TCEurope
Clusterpoint secures €1m from BaltCap to scale its database for clouds
BaltCap, a leading venture investor in startups in the Baltics region, has signed a €1 million investment in Clusterpoint, an enterprise software startup created by Latvian programmers and backed b...
eu.techcrunch.com
Technology
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TheEconomist
The euro crisis: Mario blinks
Feb 8th 2012, 17:01 by J.R. | LONDON MOST adolescent boys grow out of playing chicken when they realise the winner of the game is not the bravest, but the one too stupid to be aware of the conseque...
economist.com
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TheEconomist
Airlines and emissions permits: Green taxes—a nice little earner for some
Feb 6th 2012, 18:07 by P.C. DESPITE hostility from many foreign governments and airlines the European Union last month went ahead and introduced a requirement for airlines to buy permits to cover t...
Environment
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TheEconomist
Well done Warsaw: Poland's debt trumps Germany's and America's
Feb 8th 2012, 16:50 by E.L. ANYONE who takes financial-market indicators as a guide to the real world must be mad or a banker. But it is still interesting to note, as Bloomberg has just calculated,...
Business
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TechCrunch
LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch.She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and v...
techcrunch.com
Business
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TheEconomist
Film publicity in Hollywood: They don't make 'em like they used to
Feb 8th 2012, 15:04 by J.M. | NEW YORK THIS awards season is the first in many years to applaud a silent feature film. “The Artist”, described by its director Michel Havanicius as “a love letter to...
Art & Entertainment
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TechCrunch
Music Labels’ Joint Venture, VEVO, Shows Pirated ESPN Game At Sundance
Over the last decade the major music labels — and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America — have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of...
techcrunch.com
Education
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TheEconomist
Schumpeter: The coming retail boom
A COUPLE of years ago the Obamas visited Paris. One Sunday morning Michelle and her daughters decided to sample the city’s famous shops. There was only one problem: the shops were all firmly fermés...
Business
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smashingmag
A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients - Smashing Coding
Are you fascinated by dynamic data? Do you go green with envy when you see tweets pulled magically into websites? Trust me, I’ve been there. The goal of today’s tutorial is to create a simple Web a...
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Technology
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smashingmag
Musings on Preprocessing | CSS
I've been using SASS for pretty much everything I do recently. Here's some musings on the journey. From hold-ups, to trip-ups, to turn-offs. From apps and teams to workflows and syntax.You Gotta Wo...
css-tricks.com
Technology
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mashable
LinkedIn Hits 150 Million Members
LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November. The figure was disclosed in a press release the company issued Thursday announcing its...
mashable.com
Business
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TechCrunch
You Can Buy Me Love, But Please Don’t Buy Me Gadgets
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and the majority of us are likely scrambling to find that special gift. (The rest of us, meanwhile, are cursing couples.) A Valentine’s Day gift is usuall...
techcrunch.com
Stories
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smashingmag
Detox // ShaunInman.com
This is an intervention. Detox is a tiny Safari extension that automatically expands shortened t.co links on the Twitter site (sorry, third-party desktop app users are out of luck).Ever wonder why ...
shauninman.com
Technology
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TheEconomist
Empiricism in politics: On opinions beyond the reach of data
Feb 8th 2012, 17:29 by W.W. | IOWA CITY DAVID FRUM quotes the following passage of Charles Murray's new book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960 - 2010", in the midst of a long, scathi...
Society
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RWW
Hangout With the Scientists Looking for the God Particle
Want to hang out with the people who run the CMS? No, not the content management system. The Compact Muon Solenoid. It's one of the two big detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest...
Science
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mashable
Zynga and Hasbro Sign Licensing Deal
If Angry Birds and Cut the Rope can have toys, why can’t FarmVille? Social gaming juggernaut Zynga is teaming up with toy maker Hasbro to create a “wide range of toys and gaming experiences” based ...
mashable.com
Stories
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TechCrunch
The Google+ Platform Roadmap From Director Of Engineering David Glazer
Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch.Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, wh...
techcrunch.com
Business
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FastCompany
Ford's Nancy Lee Gioia On Leading Where The Rubber Meets The Road
Nancy Lee Gioia’s been with Ford Motor Company since 1982, when she was hired as a graduate trainee in the electronics division. In the 30 years that followed, she’s held a variety of positions in ...
fastcompany.com
Education